Out of Office message challenge

[Jason Cochrane]

I am trying to set up an out of office reply using Outlook 2003 that is NOT
part of an Exchange server. I am using to dial out POP3...is there a way to
make this happen? I do not have "Out of Office Assistant" available as a
menu option, and I have not found a way to send out a reply using the
"Rules" wizard. Any suggestions?? Is it even possible to do since I use
POP3 instead of Exchange?

Thx,

Jason

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

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[David]

Does your POP3 have web based interface like an I-mail
server? Maybe there is a vacation message option for the
web based interface? Good luck.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am trying to set up an out of office reply using Outlook 2003 that
is NOT part of an Exchange server.

How to Emulate the Out of Office Assistant
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311107

Took all of threee seconds to find in Microsoft's Knowledgebase.